Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.

Their assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trumps advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling. After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an F.B.I. interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.

The agents summarized their highly unusual interview and sent word to Washington on Aug. 2, 2016, two days after the investigation was opened. Their report helped provide the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday, became the special counsel investigation. But at the time, a small group of F.B.I. officials knew it by its code name: Crossfire Hurricane.

Australia got played. I hope they understand just how badly they look now and understand now, how meddling in internal politics is wrong in all cases. They need to make it up to the Trump administration.

They screwed us with mooselimb rapugees, and they needled with the election. Not seeming much like our friends to me.

The relevant question is: How did Papadopoulos “learn” about Russians “involvement” in the election? Answer: Because the same group who initiated this investigation had arranged for persons under their control to tell him that “fact.” They set him up to serve as the basis for initiating an investigation that doesn’t have the slightest basis in actual fact. But of course, the New York Slimes ignores these inconvenient facts.

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posted on 05/16/2018 11:40:10 AM PDT
by TheConservator
(All the blather about Trump¬ís violation of the law is simply a projection of their own lawlessness.)

The fact that our “newspaper of record” is hopelessly biased against our sitting President is deeply disturbing. Here’s a quote from the article:

“A year and a half later, no public evidence has surfaced connecting Mr. Trumps advisers to the hacking or linking Mr. Trump himself to the Russian governments disruptive efforts. But the articles tone and headline  ‘Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia’  gave an air of finality to an investigation that was just beginning.”

Do they not see how ridiculous that sounds. If the article was (honestly) written today, it would say the exact same thing: “Investigating Donald Trump (for nearly two years), F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia”. Yet it “pre-emptively exonerated Mr. Trump”? How can an ostensibly intelligent person even write/edit something as asinine as that?

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